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From: Physfitfreak <Physfitfreak@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: This FOSS Thang :-)
Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2024 18:47:49 -0500
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On 3/24/2024 2:08 AM, rbowman wrote:
> You're as bad as my third grade teacher.


No I figured it out.

I think it was not a mistake in the sense that one didn't know enough 
and as a result got the results wrong. You knew your algorithm and 
correctly followed it, but it happened that it was not the correct 
algorithm. So the mistake was somebody else's who hadn't clarified the 
procedure closely enough for you and hadn't tested the result of his 
teaching to make sure the procedure was correctly conveyed to the pupils.

So it was an "innocent mistake" on your side of the matters.

In Iran, they had made it much less probable for the student to take the 
wrong procedure, by simply placing the carried number way away from the 
calculation area, writing it there, and coming back to continue the next 
step of the multiplication, and only then going to where the carry 
number was sitting to add it to and immediately crossing the carry 
number so it wouldn't get mixed up with the next one we'd write in that 
area away from the calculation. This helped us greatly; otherwise, the 
two algorithms by themselves gave no indication which one was the 
correct one.




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